24 minutes agoPope Francis remembers Soviet, Nazi crimes
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(8 years ago)Pope Francis has remembered Soviet and Nazi horrors during his visit to Lithuania. A large crowd gathered to hear Vatican leader honoring Holocaust victims and Soviet persecutions, writes DW. On the first pope's trip to Baltic in the last 25 years, Francisco remembered [...]
Pope Francis has remembered Soviet and Nazi horrors during his visit to Lithuania.
A large crowd gathered to hear Vatican leader honoring Holocaust victims and Soviet persecutions, writes DW.
On the first pope's trip to Baltic in the past 25 years, Francescu recalled the crimes and extermination of the Jewish community in Lithuania during World War II while speaking to 100,000 people.
Jewish people suffered cruel insults and sentences. The previous generations still bear the wounds of the occupation period, the anxiety of those who have been deported, the uncertainty of those who have never returned, and the shame of those who were informants and traitors” said Pope Francisescu.
The pope also warned of a revival of harmful anti-Semitic feelings that sparked the Holocaust and highlighted its dissatisfaction with the historic revisionism taking place throughout Eastern Europe, as some countries seek to regain their role in Nazi genocide.
